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NO. 9. SECOND YEAR
A BROAIISIDE
FOR FEBRUARY, I910
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY E. C. YEATS AT THE CUALA PRESS,
CHURCHTOWN, DUNDRUM, COUNTY DUBLIN.
SUBSCRIPTION TWELVE SHILLINGS A YEAR POST FREE.
LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF eoszm Rum’) UA newt.
COMMONLY CALLED OWEN ROE O’NEIL
Time-- 10th Nov., 1649. Scenee Ormond’s Camp, County
Waterford. Speakers-- A Veteran of Owen O’Nei1’s clan, and one
of the horsemen, just arrived with an account of his death.
‘Did they dare, did they dare to slay Owen Roe O’Neil ?’
‘Yes, they slew with poison him they feared to meet with steel.’
‘May God wither up their hearts! May their blood cease to flow!
‘May they walk in living death, who poisoned Owen Roe!
‘Though it break my heart to hear, say again the bitter words.’
‘From Derry, against Cromwell, he marched to measure swords;
But the weapon of the Saxon met him on his way,
And he died at Cloc Uactair, upon Saint Leonard’s Day.’
‘Wail, wail ye for the Mighty One! Wail, wail ye for the Dead;
Qiench the hearth,and hold the breath- with ashes strewthe head.
How tenderly we loved him! How deeply we deplore!
Holy Saviour! but to think we shall never see him more.
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